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> What's the upside of having a giant corporation owning all coworking spaces, versus having many small and independent small businesses running and operating independent coworking spaces? Advantage to customers? Likely minimal. Advantage to the company itself: economies of scale and, likely more importantly, lack of competition allowing them to increase prices. The very clear trend across all sectors is that compani…
> People act like healthy, competitive, transparent markets just appear out of thin air, but they are an artificial creation of government. Thanks for this insightful comment. I never fully considered it, but yes - all healthy, competitive markets exist as a result of a government that fosters them.
Its the reverse. All healthy, competitive markets exist as the result of a lack of government intervention.
Lack of a competitive market is the result of government intervention.